distrustfully

Example Sentences

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Not to mention barking distrustfully at any non-immediate-family members who even approach our door, including people they have known for years.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 28, 2020

Turns out it’s stopped sending its signal because Captain Marvel has arrived — she appears in their lab, looking at them all distrustfully, and she asks: “Where’s Fury?”

From The Verge • Mar. 7, 2019

Months later, the two are still distrustfully circling each other.

From Washington Times • Mar. 22, 2016

The association of Modern art with villainy isn’t new in movies: Hitchcock had fun with it in a memorable quick bit in “Suspicion,” in which a detective distrustfully eyeballs an abstract painting.

From New York Times • Oct. 18, 2012

The result is a grotesque, semi-feline mask, which now squints at us distrustfully.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins